CHASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chased mean? 

• CHASED (noun)
  The noun CHASED has 1 sense:

1. a person who is being chased

  Familiarity information: CHASED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHASED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is being chased

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chased; pursued

Context example:

the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued

Hypernyms ("chased" is a kind of...):

hunted person (a person who is hunted)

 Context examples 

He had served, as he was proud to say, in the last of our ships which had been chased out of the Mediterranean in ’97, and in the first which had re-entered it in ’98.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, out it came, and away ran Polly, frightened to death, and scrambled up on Aunt's chair, calling out, 'Catch her! Catch her! Catch her!' as I chased the spider.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then with a grand effort she rallied from the shock, and a supreme astonishment and indignation chased every other expression from her features.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And so we dodged about the deck, hand in hand, like a couple of children chased by a wicked ogre, till Wolf Larsen, evidently in disgust, left the deck for the cabin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We had not sailed above three days, when a great storm arising, we were driven five days to the north-north-east, and then to the east: after which we had fair weather, but still with a pretty strong gale from the west. Upon the tenth day we were chased by two pirates, who soon overtook us; for my sloop was so deep laden, that she sailed very slow, neither were we in a condition to defend ourselves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I will tell also of the huge bird which chased Challenger to the shelter of the rocks one day—a great running bird, far taller than an ostrich, with a vulture-like neck and cruel head which made it a walking death.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As for the Lion, he sniffed the fresh air with delight and whisked his tail from side to side in pure joy at being in the country again, while Toto ran around them and chased the moths and butterflies, barking merrily all the time.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The archer, however, who had drunk more than any man in the room, was as merry as a grig, and having kissed the matron and chased the maid up the ladder once more, he went out to the brook, and came back with the water dripping from his face and hair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sank one, captured one, and chased the third.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)